Social theory

1 Social Darwinism is a theory of natural selection to social, political, and economical issues. Survival of the fittest is caused to this. All of this means that people should being doing things naturally, without help from people. Social Darwinists would have disapproved of anything the government did to help protect the weak. They would have disapproved of measures meant to prevent small businesses from being shut down by monopoly. The Darwinists would have disliked that people got minimum…

required to behave philanthropically. Triple Bottom Line Another theory of corporate social responsibility is the Triple Bottom Line. Like the CSR theory , Triple Bottom Line works on the assumption that the corporation is a member of the moral community, and this gives it social responsibilities. This theory focuses on sustainability, and requires that any company weigh its actions on three independent scales: financial sustainability, social sustainability, and ecological sustainability. These…

In social networking sites individuals have the opportunity to perform identity. One has selective control over what attributes he or she wishes to display and thus, can present his or her best self. As philanthropy moves into online spheres, people engage in activism differently. Online activism is considered slacktivist, where no real effect results from an individual’s actions. Viral social movements such as The Ice Bucket Challenge and Kony 2012, although yielding different results, question…

Social Psychology In any social set-up, members have a natural proclivity to conform to the general norms of the group in order to be accepted. This phenomenon was demonstrated by Solomon Ash in 1955 through a simple experiment. He put participants in a group and asked them to answer a series of simple questions whose answers seem obvious to everyone. It was observed that when other group members had chosen a wrong answer for a very easy question, the remaining member of the group was likely to…

2.5 Theoretical and conceptual framework Social Exchange Theory is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. Social exchange theory derives from several distinct lines of theoretical work in the social sciences, including social behaviorism, utilitarianism, and functionalism (Turner 1986). Exchange theory uses the concepts of rewards and costs. This refers to the benefits that a person can receive through interpersonal exchange in their social relationships. Rewards are defined as…

In Social Theory Re-Wired, Karl Marx explains how humans are different than animals in the sense that humans have the ability to develop a conscious. The reason why consciousness is a crucial theme is because through consciousness, humans begin to realize that they live in a community. “Man consciousness of the necessity of associating with the individuals around him is the beginning of the consciousness that he is living in society at all” (Marx p117). By coming to this conclusion, humans begin…

The social hierarchy does not provide a way for those on the bottom to escape the bottom. They remain at the lowest of the low purely because there is profit to be made from the suffering of the inferior. The psychologist John C Turner examined the consistency of one’s identity in a group and its inability to change: “It is the awareness of the existence of categories which generates the in-group response, not necessarily past hostility nor objective conflict. Identity within a group is either…

From a sociological perspective, social inequality has been defined in many ways by influential theorists such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim. All theories of social inequality are founded on the basic conceptualisation of inequality as unequal distribution of resources, although each theorists describes various reasons for this. Karl Marx is one of sociology’s most influential theorists and his theory of class conflict has been pivotal in understanding social inequality. Marx believed that the…

culture have distinct arguments that produce both strengths and weaknesses. In “Chicano Struggles for Racial Justice: the Movement’s Contribution to Social Theory”, the author, Ramon Gutierrez claims that collective action of both Chicanos and African Americans contributed to the study of social theory, including the internal colonialism theory. Such theory centers itself on the dominance that the United…

Henri Tajfel’s Social Identity theory can be applied to the significant events that has affected my development. It is a stage theory that expresses the process by which individuals formulate their identity based upon a group that they interact with (Hutchinson, 2015). One’s social identity refers to an individual’s sense of who they are based on a group membership. The groups that people belong to are an important source of self-esteem and pride (Mcleod, 2008). According to this theory, there…